Re: very stupid question about lookup

Thanks Boris, I added your findings to
http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqHowToReuseModules

With kind regards, markiewb

2017-01-04 22:54 GMT+01:00 Boris Heithecker <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
> here is how to make global updates and updates into a custom target
> cluster/folder work in a NetBeans Platform application:
> 1. Set nbm.is.global=true and/or nbm.target.cluster="yourtargetcluster"
> 2. Create an instanceof org.netbeans.spi.autoupdate.AutoupdateClusterCreator
> as a service provider. Unless you have an appropriate
> AutoupdateClusterCreator service in your platform application, these
> properties have no effect and all updates will always be installed in the
> user dir! Unfortunately, this is poorly documented.
> The easy way to create one such AutoupdateClusterCreator was for me to
> adapt the source file of the default IDE implementation (
> http://hg.netbeans.org/main/file/37a3793b7675/updatecenters/src/org/
> netbeans/modules/updatecenters/resources/NetBeansClusterCreator.java ) to
> my own needs. Basically, all you have to do is replace one file name:
> "netbeans.clusters" must become "yourbrandingappname.clusters". You'll
> find the respective file in "install-dir/etc" of your application.
>
> Boris
>
> 2017-01-04 18:09 GMT+01:00 mcheung63 <[email protected]>:
>
>> NBM seems can't install globally, so other module just can find my
>> another module
>>
>> https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64873
>>
>> And this document http://wiki.netbeans.org/HowToReuseModules seems
>> outdated, these have no effect:
>>
>> nbm.is.global=true
>> nbm.target.cluster=milkyway
>>
>>
>>
>>